The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

Trees are your best antiques

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together.

Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October.

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

Embrace each new day with great expectations.

Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

Every scientist should remove the word 'impossible' from their lexicon.

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.

I found that it was much better to look at the figures rather than people.